It runs on the phone afaik, while speech recognition on the other hand is supported by stuff Google runs in the cloud.
Edit: I might be wrong, at the end of a paragraph they say it runs on Google’s TPU cloud infrastructure, though it isn't clear to me whether they just use that for training.
Edit 2: I just tried it on my phone. At least stuff like asking it to "Turn on WiFi" works without an internet connection, and yields a TTS response.
Edit: I might be wrong, at the end of a paragraph they say it runs on Google’s TPU cloud infrastructure, though it isn't clear to me whether they just use that for training.
Edit 2: I just tried it on my phone. At least stuff like asking it to "Turn on WiFi" works without an internet connection, and yields a TTS response.